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2025/04/04 19:53:39
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Watched the Netflix Devil May Cry anime. It was not great, in my opinion. Basically Devil May Cry in name only, outside of the personality of Dante.
Most of the other characters from the games get butchered, especially Lady who now swears in every other word or thereabouts. Some familiar enemies make an appearance, but some of them have their designs changed for no real reason (such as Agni and Rudra who have heads which aren't on their swords now).
The fight scenes are okay, but they really missed an opportunity to incorporate choreography from the games. Like, throughout the entire show Dante never performs a stinger or million stab with Rebellion that I can recall.
Plot points from the games have been put in there without the context that makes them good moments. Like Dante unlocking his devil trigger, and part of Lady's backstory with her father.
All in all, a disappointment. Should've given it to the people who made Edgerunners.
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The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
2025/04/06 17:10:11
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Have to concur. There's parts of the show that are imo, well done (sound effects in this series are way better than they needed to be). But overall, very meh as a series.
Dante is the one highlight as this is easily the best animated Dante out of the two animated Dante's that exist (and they really nailed everything that makes his character so fun) but they did nail his character imo. It's just everything else in the plot and the story that kind of don't mesh, right down to the hyper-predictable plot points, the so-so animation. I'm also just, frankly, feel like episode 1 is one of the worst episode 1s of any show I've ever seen. Is this a Devil May Cry series, or not even trying to hide it bad guys pretending to be good guys throwing out exposition for ten-fifteen minutes series? Subsequent episodes are better but episode 1 is just fething bad except for the pure glory of seeing Dante play DDR, which hurts because that is brilliant and almost everything else in the episode is blarg.
As a whole I'd agree it's not great.
It's an okay source of background noise, I guess. It's not like the show is offensively bad or anything. It's just a heap of missed opportunity and lost potential. It's hard for me to give the show anything higher than a 5/10.
All in all, a disappointment. Should've given it to the people who made Edgerunners.
Studio Trigger would have been good for a DMC show. It's not like DMC is a paragon of great storytelling. It's flashy. The peak of style over substance. Trigger can do substance (Edgerunners absolutely proved that) but their true talent has always been in their grasp of flashy animation and style. I think they'd have done very well with this IP.
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Yellowjackets season 3 may feel a little bit lighter on how many events actually happen, but still kept me and my wife glued to the screen. The weird dichotomy between pretty dark survival horror vibes (young characters) and black comedy (older characters) works surprisingly well. Looking forward to the season finale tomorrow, the build-up promises solid shocks.
I absolutely recommend the series. I am pretty picky with TV series (bore me with one episode and I give up on you) so Yellowjackets must really do its thing exceptionally well.
2025/04/10 18:58:57
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Watching a YouTube highlights reel of Ser Bronn out of off of Game of Thrones.
He’s long been a favourite of mine, and I think I just twigged why. His lines, and the delivery, are almost Pratchett. Someone angry and unsurprised at the world. Who doesn’t put on airs and graces, but says it how he sees it.
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That opening scene where we clearly see Apophis realise “oh….oh dear. These peeps can put up a decent fight…let’s run away, but likely, stately run away. But most importantly, RUN AWAY!
And as we’ll see over 10 seasons? That was the exact moment the Goa’uld realised they’d fethed up.
Hadn’t realised just how badly. But the first inkling.
See, they’d provoked the dirty little thieving tech monkies. And it’s all downhill from here. For the Goa’uld.
For us viewing humans? Claudia Black is just 8 short years away.
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I’ll stick that on next. Whilst I’m still disappointed in last season’s finale, and the less said about Space Babies the better? It was an otherwise solid series.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Right, that was a strong start.
Bit worried about another Super Special Companion With A Mystery, but I can live with it.
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aku-chan wrote: The new season of Doctor Who is off to a much better start than the previous one
It felt like there was a well written story at some point that got butchered at the writers table to hamfist in the whole ultra-incel angle IMO.
Feels like a decade ago you would have had much the same story except that it would have an ID/ego/superego type body horror, trapped by machines driven by the guys ID while every 9th 'hiccup' was conscious morality/ego being discarded by the AI. With the 8 step words being used for tension - a clock on the front of each robot but then strategically hidden from view at times, along with a hair trigger response to 'wrongthink'.
And there was a scene near the end that makes me think that at some point that is the story that was submitted - after the reveal "every ninth word your mind is free, every ninth word is telling us the truth ... help me, save me, pain"
As if they forgot to cut it from the final re-write, one moment it's ultra-mega-murder incel, then it's body horror victim, then it's the doctor dancing and laughing over his polished corpse.
Or perhaps i'm just overthinking it.
2025/04/13 16:44:59
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Finally got around Good Omens seasons 1&2. The first season was fun though it felt a tad rushed at the end to tie it up. Season 2 felt rushed and like it had a smaller budget. Not bad enough to be avoided but not as strong as season 1 by a decent amount. The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and annoying knowing the odds of any follow up on the TV front are nil. Having the mains kiss and admit romantic feelings seemed a misstep. Up until then they seemed like a J.D. and Turk relationship from Scrubs where they had a strong bond but it wasn't a romantic one. It didn't feel organic and came across as more that just having two people being close could only mean sexual attraction was part of it so they threw it in. Didn't ruin the show it just felt off.
No idea what the books are like. One of the reasons I didn't watch the show earlier is I hadn't read the book but I realized I still have a back log of books so might as well go ahead and watch it.
Spoiler:
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
2025/04/14 07:15:20
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Flipping through the channels the other night I found MacGyver (original series, not the crappy reboot). I thought I'd watch an episode for nostalgia.
Pleasantly surprised they'd upscaled it to high-definition standards. The bad, the effects budget became A LOT more apparent.
The episode revolves around MacGyver's friend Pete being caught on the wrong side of battlelines during a revolution in a fictional Central American country. All the bad guys are basically wearing the "bad guy uniform" of camo tank tops, with the occasional pair of sunglasses. Although they are "rebels in the mountains", main bad-lady seems to have access to lip filler and cosmetics. Also some of the background henchmen are Gringos with berets.
Then I noticed I could see their breath a couple times. Okay, okay, they are in the mountains, perhaps it's winter and a cold morning. Then I noticed the mountains themselves. Really tall and pointy.....and covered almost purely in fir trees. Yep, totally Central America and not British Columbia.
2025/04/15 18:48:06
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
I’m still stunned at just how good its first season was. Yes there’s utter guff in there. It’s 90’s sci-fi, of course there’s guff.
But there is so, so much world building off the back of the movie. And in that world building, seeds sown which might take entire seasons to properly flower.
It also sets up the dynamic I’ve previously praised, where all four members of the team have their own special area, but with some crossover.
For instance?
O’Neill, Carter and Teal’c are born soldiers.
Teal’c and Jackson are the history and language guys.
Jackson and Carter are the science peeps.
And some of the best episodes across its 10 year run are when The Main Expert isn’t present or is messed up, forcing their Natural Buddy to step up.
I bloody love this show. And I always will.
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The trials and tribulations of a 1960s Ad Agency in New York. Pretty damn good, but not so good that I want to rush off to watch the next 6 seasons of marital problems, alcoholism, sexism, racism and the sheer cynicism of the business.
Very well acted and well written, but I wish I had caught this ride while it was in progress, rather than play catchup so many years later. I may slowly chip away at the series over time, but I’m not sure I have the patience/attention span.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2025/04/16 03:59:07
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
I'm just going to slap this hour long video down because honestly, I agree with the guy. Anime fans of mine? This season, we are eating well because there is a staggering number of good, promising, and even downright original idea filled animes this season. After years of a constant unending barrage of banal, trashing, garbage, eye rolling isekai knock off animes, this season is fething loaded.
There's an Anne of Green Gables anime adaptation. And it's actually good!
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Yeah, I think I totally picked the right time to try getting back into anime again.
From this season I'm following:- Kowloon Generic Romance, Lazarus, To Be Hero X, Witch Watch, My Hero Academia - Vigilantes, Apocalypse Hotel and An Assassin And A Ninja Under One Roof.
2025/04/16 13:18:00
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
My Mother's Basement is probably my favorite reviewer overall. Didn't see the new ones to watch was out. Honestly most seasons lately have been great, there's just an incredible amount of garbage you need someone to sift through to find the gems.
Really liked the debut of Gquuuuux. I normally like the idea of Gundam more than the actual show anymore, but this one definitely worked for me.
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2025/04/16 16:45:27
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Really liked the debut of Gquuuuux. I normally like the idea of Gundam more than the actual show anymore, but this one definitely worked for me.
The premise took me by surprise, and yeah. I'd be annoyed by the second episode in any other show (a full flashback in episode 2 that doesn't follow up on the breakneck 'no time to explain' pacing of episode 1? dicey) but at least as a Gundam guy, I enjoyed the scenario the episode presented and the way it sets up the setting.
Really liked the debut of Gquuuuux. I normally like the idea of Gundam more than the actual show anymore, but this one definitely worked for me.
The premise took me by surprise, and yeah. I'd be annoyed by the second episode in any other show (a full flashback in episode 2 that doesn't follow up on the breakneck 'no time to explain' pacing of episode 1? dicey) but at least as a Gundam guy, I enjoyed the scenario the episode presented and the way it sets up the setting.
This is my daughter's first Gundam that we started with me only knowing it was an alternative universe and assuring her she didn't need to know anything to enjoy it. We're like 3 minutes in and she's like "who's Char?" and I'm like.... uhhhhh..... I'm not sure I can explain that in anything less than a 7 week course.
2025/04/16 23:32:04
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Yeah. They kept this being the first fullblown 'what if' entry in the franchise under wraps until the premier. I don't think I saw anyone pegging that G-Quacks would be a UC series.
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